Thermal Insulation

Our coating solutions protect and insulate pipes used in offshore and onshore projects in order to
guarantee flow assurance.
Thermal coating solutions
Tenaris offers a complete range of thermal coating solutions in alliance with international coating
companies. These solutions protect and insulate pipe used in offshore projects in order to guarantee
flow assurance. We can provide:
WET INSULATION
Glass syntactic polyurethane
Polypropylene foam syntactic
Multi-layer polypropylene
PIPE-IN-PIPE INSULATION
Glass syntactic polyurethane pipe insulation
We offer syntactic polyurethane thermal insulation solutions for flow assurance in applications
involving offshore shallow water pipelines. This option can be used in operating temperatures of
between -35C and 115C.
Polypropylene foam syntactic insulation
To guarantee offshore flow assurance, we offer a polypropylene foam syntactic insulation coating
system recommended for operating temperatures ranging from -35C to 155C and water depths of a
maximum 2,800 meters.
Multi-layer polypropylene pipe insulation
We provide a multi-layer thermal insulation application process that results in a combination of anti-
corrosion and thermal insulating materials applied to steel pipe in multiple layers. The system is
similar to a conventional three-layer anti-corrosion system; however, additional layers of solid, foam
or syntactic polypropylene are used depending on the water depth.
The multi-layer polypropylene is recommended for operating temperatures of up to 140C and water
depths greater than 3,000 meters. Meanwhile, the multi-layer polypropylene foam works in operating
temperatures ranging from -20C to 140C and water depths up to 600 meters.
Pipe-in-pipe insulation
Our offer includes coating for pipe-in-pipe systems, which include an outer pipe able to withstand
water pressure and prevent water penetration, and an inner pipe which conducts the production fluids.
The thermal insulation material is placed between the production flowline and the carrier pipe.
We supply the outer pipe, inner pipe and high-efficiency insulation system to optimize flow
assurance in the most complex scenarios.